Movie Night: The Soloist

When two great actors come together, they make a great movie. Give the great actors an amazing screenplay and you've got yourself a winner!

I don't think anyone could have played these roles better than Robert Downey, Jr. and Jamie Foxx. When Los Angeles Times columnist, Steve Lopez (Robert Downey, Jr.), discovers transient, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers (Jamie Foxx), playing a two-stringed violin at the foot of a statue of Beethoven - he saw an interesting story for his column.

But Nathaniel Anthony Ayers challenged him to be more than a writer, he became Steve Lopez's friend and taught him more about relationships than anyone has ever done in his life. As he learned Nathaniel's story, as he tried to help him regain his potential - he discovers a lost soul that just needed some understanding and a lot of love.



When I see transients in the streets of LA, San Francisco and yes, even in Orange County - I can sense heartbreaking stories behind their faces. Some of the homeless here in America have had amazing lives like Nathaniel who attended Julliard, an executive who has fallen on hard times, a divorced person who did not recover from the failure of his/her marriage - or just a lost soul with huge potential just needing someone to believe in him/her.

The value of being a friend is greater than all the wealth in the world. See the movie, it's already out on DVD - it was definitely an eye opener for me.